Not true. You just don't hear bout them from the mainstream media. Montana is currently trying to nullify federal gun laws. Google "the montana gun law you will never hear about". They may not call it nullification these days, but it happens.

That's nonsense. Just because some people are willing to make it clear that they have a bias doesn't mean that an "un"-biased view is possible. This fiction about "objective" journalism is just that fiction and it only serves the interests of the ruling institutions and individuals for them to make us believe that corporate infotainment is somehow a standard to aspire to. How The New York Times, CNN and all the major outlets are still considered legit when they all worked with the Pentagon to take us to war is beyond me. Stephen Colbert was unbearably right at the Correspondents' dinner, all they do is transcribe what gov't spokespeople tell them. They don't ask questions, they don't seek clarification and they don't check facts, all they do is amplify. There is no "purely" academic view. The academy is better informed than the media but no less given to ideological bias. We all know the fairy tale, that's why it takes a Howard Zinn to tell us the important stuff that was left out on purpose.

Wow. You blew me away with your brainy argument.

I became a Conservative by being around Liberals and I became a Libertarian by being around Conservatives.

-Greg Gutfeld

The so-called Libertarians you describe aren't Libertarians at all. True Libertarians adhere to equality under the Law, and thus are not influenced by lobbyists (special interests).

Of course, as you say, Libertarians aren't opposed to big corporations. Have you got any idea how it is that under a Libertarian system corporations get big? Corporations in a free society grow because they serve the interests of the People.

Now, it is under Big Government that corporations get special treatment, grow fat off the backs of the People, establish monopolies that last, and more bad things. You try to reign in massive corporations that rip you off if your beloved socialists FORCE you to buy their crap products.

Just today I read in a crap Dutch newspaper (they're all crap, by the way) that people who refuse to pay for their Universal Healthcare (choke on it) get huge fines, the State even going as far as completely ignoring the financial situation of those people and, naturally, completely ignoring such a thing as free choice (What's that? the socialist said.)

In a Libertarian system it's easy for you to start your own business, employ the people you want to employ, and pay them what you want to pay them. If those people don't want to work for you, they'll go elsewhere. That is, if they got even a modicum of balls.

The power is ours, except if masses of people start to hand over one right after another, and demand special treatment over others. Then, the political system slants itself to benefit those who feel the need to gain unfair advantage over their fellow citizens. In the end, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that the snake begins to feed upon itself, one minority group after another falling under the relentless runaway train that is the collectivist state. You will, one day, be next. But, maybe your luck will be sheer ignorance, and a brainwashed brain, so you will say that you are subordinate to the State and too bad it just took away your *insert word(s) of choice*.

America has never known a true Libertarian system.

I urge you to study what Libertarianism truly is. Relatively few people understand it, but you might become one of them.